Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A machine that records the measurements of a tachometer, especially one in a vehicle recording its speed and the times at which it was driven.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A recording tachometer applied to shafting or wheels to register rotation-speed; a speed-indicator. Also
tacheograph .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A recording or registering tachometer; also, its autographic record.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
device thatrecords thedistance andtime traveled by avehicle (especially atruck orcoach ), used to check thedrivers ' working time.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a tachometer that produces a graphical record of its readings; used to record the speed and duration of trips in a motor vehicle
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The new rules forbid drivers of commercial vehicles, including rescue tow trucks, from travelling more than 62 miles from their bases unless the vehicle is fitted with a tachograph – a device that monitors the number of hours spent on the road.
Archive 2008-06-01 FIDO The Dog 2008
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The jury heard expert evidence that the vehicle's tachograph showed Mr Shapland had been travelling at 55mph (89km/h) in a 40mph (64km/h) zone, and that braking had reduced the speed to 52mph (84km/h) at the point of impact.
BBC News - Home 2011
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Using the integrated OmniExpress system's on-board computer with the vehicle's digital tachograph, Waberer's will be able to monitor driver and vehicle activities remotely.
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A complex investigation by Cumbria police has led to 13 drivers working for a Northern Ireland haulage firm admitting falsifying their tachograph records.
News round-up 2010
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Peter Johnson, of Inchcape Ford Farnborough, worked with them to determine the correct information regarding tachograph regulations and supported their fund-raising efforts through sponsorship from Inchcape Farnborough.
Automotive Headlines dse@theautochannel.com 2010
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Using the integrated OmniExpress system's on-board computer with the vehicle's digital tachograph, Waberer's will be able to monitor driver and vehicle activities remotely.
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All the charges related to alleged tachograph offences between November 2007 and November
News round-up 2010
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And Patrick Boyle, the managing director, also pleaded not guilty to perverting the course of justice by attempting to dispose of tachograph vehicle units.
News round-up 2010
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Those who admitted forging their tachograph records were: James Aird, 48, of Mountblow
News round-up 2010
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Hunkered down in his cab, the man reportedly gobbled up the paper discs of his truck's tachograph, which records speed and the time driven.
qroqqa commented on the word tachograph
Thoughts and deeds on seeing it:
(i) Think it's a typo for tachygraph.
(ii) Web-search. Find it's the valid name for the thing.
(iii) Think it's malformed Greek and should be tachygraph; web-search 'tachygraph'; find that's a name for something entirely different.
(iv) Think it's appropriate and reasonable to make the alteration to the more familiar -o- in order to distinguish meanings.
(v) Look up in OED; be reminded that tákhos "speed" is just as good a Greek word as takhýs "speedy", and that 'tachograph' therefore is well-formed.
(vi) Enter on Wordie.
(vii) Wonder if there are single-word verbs for 'OED' and 'Wordie' corresponding to 'google'.
(viii) Get back to work.
September 12, 2008
qroqqa commented on the word tachograph
(i) Think it's a typo for tachygraph.
(ii) Look up in OED.
(iii) Simultaneously have nagging feeling I've already wordied this.
(iv) Look up on Wordie.
(v) Get back to work.
June 5, 2009